Old fashioned names

[kooky]

A friend's grandchildren - all under 6, Albert, Agnes and Olive.
My mother's generation b. early 1900s Lilian, Doris, Elsie, Walter, Edith, Fred, Herbert, and Olive.
Kooky

[Mowsehowse]

I think Jonathan has been a hugely popular 20C name and during the 1970s it certainly ranked high in the top 10, but I find these days it isn't even in the top 100. 

[carol8353]

I was at school in the 1950's and 60's with a Dudley,together with his surname he is the only one in the country of that name.

That's another one that you can't imagine being given to a baby today.

Carol

[JAKnighton]

These old-fashioned names are cycling through again, my friend teaches young children and they have names like Harry, Reuben, Florence etc. My niece born this year is a Matilda and another family member has young twins, Wilfred and Edith.

[groom]

On the whole I think I prefer the old fashioned names rather than some of the strange made up names that some poor children are saddled with today. They may sound cute as a baby or young child, but have the parents really thought ahead to when that child becomes an adult?

[ScouseBoy]

50 years ago,  I had a colleague at work  called Bes,  but I cannot remember what that was short for.  Whether it was simply Besmond,  I cannot recall.

[..claire..]

The name BES is an Egyptian baby name. In Egyptian the meaning of the name Bes is 'Brings Joy'

... unless it should have been DES.

 

[brigidmac]

kooky ..?what are the origins of that

a congolese friend's daughter is called Kevinah

today i met a young man 30ish called Gaven ..not come across that spelling before .

people who have unusual names have better chance of acheiving fame .

[jaybelnz]

"Lily" is the name that young friends of mine named their daughter, in the 80's.

It was hard not to laugh, and even harder to know what to say - their surname was Pond!

I kid you not!